The Latest Word is in the market for quality blogging and other web goodness from around Denver. Send tips. Republicans split on 3.2-beer debate, probably because they only drink wine and kitten’s blood. (Face the State) Rocky employees: There are people in Albuquerque who feel your pain. And people in…
You might think he’s just another Internet wonder, but teen comedian/musician Bo Burnham is determined to prove he’s for real… and he’s doing it in the flesh. The fresh-faced and openly gay performer, who first garnered mass attention (to the tune of two-million hits) for his YouTube video “My Whole…
Moments ago, Westword editorial assistant Aubrey Shoe noticed something unusual about the front page of the January 14 Rocky Mountain News: It didn’t mention January 14. The date usually appears at the top of the page, centered in small print directly above the box containing featured headlines. But that area…
You might expect a confirmation hearing for a new Secretary of the Interior to be tough going, given the multiple scandals and vast challenges facing the agency after years of Bush administration bumbling and plundering. After all, the Department of the Interior manages a fifth of the land in the country,…
Barack-it Knife The amazing tool that can cut (taxes) and uncork (bottles of Chardonnay). — Kenny Be…
Today’s Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News both feature editorial-page items knocking local politicos for not sharing information about how they divvied out their allotted free tickets to Barack Obama’s inauguration on January 20. The Post went after all the members of Colorado’s congressional delegation in its unsigned salvo, while…
Word that the Rocky Mountain News has gotten a temporary reprieve from its owner, E.W. Scripps, which is collecting offers to buy the paper through Friday, shouldn’t be interpreted as a sign of renewed stability in Denver daily newspapering. No matter what happens with the Rocky and the Denver Post…
By day, Bill Menezes is the editorial director of Colorado Media Matters, a website devoted to highlighting and undermining what the folks there perceive to be conservative misinformation that’s being foisted on an unsuspecting populace. But tonight at 6 p.m. on Channel 7, he’ll be showing another side of himself:…
Yesterday’s blog headlined “The Latest From the Rocky Mountain News Grapevine About the Paper’s Future” noted that the E.W. Scripps-owned tabloid had reported very little about its potential sale since December 24. That changed this morning with the publication of “Efforts to Sell Rocky Could Extend Into Next Week,” an…
It doesn’t take much for Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper to put on a goofy getup for the photogs — but yesterday he had a good reason for doing so. Hick strapped on an ungainly helmet and peddled around a city block in honor of the news that this summer the…
For photos from Jared Jacang Maher’s driving tour of Denver beltway, go to westword.com/slideshow. Read more on developing the Rocky Flats here. Jefferson County has a bold vision for how to brand itself as a leader in the new green economy. Officials talk about smart development, open space, multi-modal transportation,…
From the top of the isolated, windy plateau along the southern border of Rocky Flats, you can see the extended mass of metro Denver and, on a clear day, the distant line of the beltway around it. In anticipation of that line one day extending into the Jefferson Parkway, earth-movers…
Red Rocks Amphitheatre won’t announce its 2009 lineup until this spring, but no matter who takes the stage — whether it’s Lyle Lovett or 50 Cent — concert-goers will likely pay an extra fifty cents to see him. But don’t cry into your smuggled-in flask of vodka. Those two shiny…
“Let’s Get Lost,” Alan Prendergast, January 8 Tattoo You Screws implanted in head, check. Pathological liar, check. Drifter, check. No family comment, check. But Kauri Tiyme sure used the highest-quality ink on the most original of tattoos (fyi, next to stars, cherry blossoms are the next most popular tattoos). Great…
In other words… Today in Cafe Society: • Cafe Brazil builds a bar next door. • Another week, another obsession. • Bistro Vendome’s mussel deal is no shell game. • Alto pushing cuisine with new chef. • Save a buffalo: Eat it at Tommyknockers. Today in Backbeat Online: • Mile…
David Shneer is a one-man dynamo when it’s come to bringing into focus the divergent cultural wings of the Jewish diaspora locally, in the past as a professor and director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver and currently in a similar role at CU-Boulder. And he’s…
Denver-based ProgressNow and ProgressNow Action have become among the most effective political organizations in these parts, using a growing network of supporters to push its liberal agenda. So why change its name to ProgressNow Colorado, as is being announced today? The roots of the decision were discussed in an August…
The folks at 107.1 FM/The One are trying to find a way to differentiate themselves from their competitors at high-rated KS-107.5 — and what better way than a vibrator race between DJ Turk and Slick Rick, who co-host weeknights at The One from 7 p.m. to midnight? Only problem: YouTube…
At 7:30 am Mountain Time on January 15, U.S. Senator Ken Salazar will sit down with his colleagues on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and seek their approval in his quest to become the next Secretary of the Interior. Expect our man to be grilled by Big Oil stooges…
Bottomless Obama Bank Coins fall into a change tray to remind that as long as we have Barack, we won’t go ba-roke!…
Not too long ago, the oil and gas industry was among the only business categories flourishing in Colorado. Even as the economy was getting softer and softer along the I-25 corridor, Western Slope communities like Grand Junction were booming. But thanks to falling fuel costs (among the rare blessings for…
The silence has been deafening in regard to the possible sale of the Rocky Mountain News — at least officially. The last article in the Rocky itself about potential buyers appeared way back on December 24; that piece noted that a “deal book” of financial and demographic information had been…
